Here at the end of October, I managed to launch six ships and an LCAC from my shipyards for delivery to their respective Navies. In no particular order, here they are: The Trumpeter 1/72 scale LCAC: The 1/700 scale Pitroad/Skywave USS John C Butler DE-339: The 1/700 scale Pitroad/Skywave USS Doyle C Barnes DE-353: The 1/700 scale Pitroad/Skywave USS Fletcher (late) DD-445: The 1/700 scale Pitroad/Skywave USS McCord DD-534: The Trumpeter 1/700 scale USS Mount Whitney: And finally, the Trumpeter 1/700 scale DKM Peter Strasser aircraft carrier: Thank you all for looking in, comments are welcome...

FeR Miniatures’ Navajo, (circa 1923) is complete. I had looked at this kit several times over the years but was intimidated by the box art blanket pattern. I finally decided to get it and looked for a simpler pattern. Pendleton has one with more of a sunset theme and I used that as inspiration, choosing orange palette as a complementary color to the shirt. I did not relish doing a beaded pattern on the hat bad so decided to give him a hairpipe hat band. I made this using four strips of .5mm Evergreen rod glued side by side. This was cut to 3mm sections in a jig I made of sheet stock. The separators were additional piece of the same rod added in long sections to make it easier.

Happy Friday all, Figured I'd dive back into another WWII wingy thing and I decided on Hasegawa’s P-39N. The end goal is, that this all NMF Cobra will represent a training ship based out of Ephrata, Washington's training field. This field saw a alot of aircraft from heavies to fighters and sadly, just my luck, this unit is unknown . The following aftermarket goodies will be used.. Combat Series(formerly BlackBox) interior, Eduard Brassin wheel set and CMKs exterior set(exhaust and hor stabs only). This is where I'm at.. Happy Modeling, Mike

Greetings all, I can finally say that my aggressor Super Fox scooter is finally done and boy, am I glad! This airframe represents a jet from VF-126 "Bandits" cica 1991. Here's what I put into this build: Aires cockpit (PITA), Eduards Brassin wheels, Phase Hanger Super Fox intakes and an A-4M burnercan donated by a fellow modeling bud!(Thank you). This scheme is a mix of hardline and soft edge camo which is seen on the real A-4. Overall pleased but there are a few things I'd do differently next time then this was an off and on again build over 3 1/2 years lol so. Thank you for letting me share and as always, comments are welcomed! Happy Modeling, Mike

This is the 1/48 CollectAire resin F3D Skynight which I built as a Marine EF-10B. I bought the kit second handed with the fuselage already assembled. Unfortunately there were very large gaps (which I filled with strip plastic and superglue) and the original builder didn't add any (or enough) nose weight so I had to add a clear plastic tail prop to keep it on its gear. Otherwise it's a 10 day "quickie" OOTB build just to diminish the stash. The markings are from the kit and I do like the Playboy bunny on the tail fin! On to the rest of the pics! This gives me a gray and white Skynight to go with the all dark blue F3D I already had on the shelf. Questions, comments, and critiques welcome, as always! Gil

There is not enough pain in my life yet, so I'm looking for these kits to build. :) If you have either of these neat vacuform kits you'd like to part with, ping me at bucholtzc (at) aol (dot) com, please! I have plans for 'em. The Hall PH-3 is just a builder - it came up in my random selection process. The AT-10 is for an off the wall club contest called "Build Your Name." That's great if your name is Zeke or Kate, or Ray (Skyray!), or Arthur T. Stratofortress. In my case, there was no Japanese plane codenamed "Chris," and "Bucholtz" doesn't appear in any plane names, obviously. But "Bucholtz" means "Beech Wood" (actually, "Buchholz", as every hotel clerk at every hotel I have ever stayed at in Germany has pointed out). The AT-10 was an all-wood plane built by Beech - I think that would qualify nicely. If you happen to have one of these and your ambition has waned since you picked it up, let me know!